Bloomberg looks back at what tech industry titans predicted would be happening “by 2020.”
– Here’s what Huawei Technologies Co. said in 2015 predicting a “superphone” by 2020, according to ZDNet: “Inspired by the biological evolution, the mobile phone we currently know will come to life as the superphone,” said Shao Yang, a strategy marketing president of Huawei. “Through evolution and adaptation,…
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Behind Samsung’s $116 Billion Bid for Chip Supremacy
Technology giants are increasingly designing their own semiconductors to optimize everything from artificial intelligence tasks to server performance and mobile battery life. Google has the Tensor Processing Unit, Apple has the A13 Bionic and Amazon.com has the Graviton2. What the titans all lack, however, is a factory to build the new chips they are dreaming up. Enter Samsung Electronics, which is…
Dell Unveils Subscription Model To Counter Amazon, Microsoft
Dell is planning to offer business clients a subscription model for products like servers and personal computers, “seeking to counter the lure of cloud services from Amazon and Microsoft,” reports Bloomberg. From the report: Dell and its hardware peers have been under pressure to offer corporate clients the flexibility and simplicity of infrastructure cloud services. Public cloud titans such as Amazon…
Did underground explosions create Titan’s lakes?
The lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan are filled with liquid methane, not water, and some are surrounded by steep rims. A new study suggests these features might have been caused by explosions of warming nitrogen, which created Titan’s lake basins long ago. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/did-underground-explosions-create-titans-lakes…
Titan’s odd-shaped lakes may have formed from underground explosions
Saturn’s moon Titan has some lakes that are strangely shaped and appear to have formed from explosions of underground nitrogen hundreds of millions of years ago Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2215702-titans-odd-shaped-lakes-may-have-formed-from-underground-explosions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
40 Years Later, Lessons From the Rise and Quick Decline of the First ‘Killer App’
It was the first killer app, the spark for Apple’s early success and a trigger for the broader PC boom that vaulted Microsoft to its central position in business computing. And within a few years, it was tech-industry roadkill. From a report: The story of VisiCalc, a humble spreadsheet program that set the tech world ablaze 40 years ago, has reverberated…
‘Titans in a jar’ could answer key questions ahead of NASA’s space exploration
Researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU) could help determine if Saturn’s icy moon—Titan—has ever been home to life long before NASA completes an exploratory visit to its surface by a drone helicopter. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-titans-jar-key-nasa-space.html…
Disney is Taking Full Control of Hulu
Disney’s takeover of Hulu is just about complete. Comcast on Tuesday agreed to sell its ownership stake in the streaming video service to Disney. The sale won’t happen for at least another five years, but Disney will take full operational control of Hulu right now. From a report: The deal is a sign of how much streaming video has changed in…
Titan’s seas may be coated in organic goop that stops waves forming
Saturn’s moon Titan has liquid methane seas that are remarkably calm, which may be because a layer of organic “snow” fallen from the atmosphere kills any waves Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2202329-titans-seas-may-be-coated-in-organic-goop-that-stops-waves-forming/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star
In a cosmic clash of the titans, we may have just spotted a black hole eat a neutron star – the first collision seen between a mixed pair of these massive objects Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2201200-ligo-may-have-just-spotted-a-black-hole-devouring-a-neutron-star/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…